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VOL. XIII.   No. 3.
BRYN MAWR   (AND WAYNE),  PA..   WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1926
FRESHMAN CLASS
IS NO LOCHINVA^

Statistics   Reveal  Only   One-
Third of 1930 Come
Out of West
^^MOSTLY BRITISH STOCK
Statistics of the class of 1930 were
made public by President Marion Ed-
wards Park on Monday, October 11.
The  most   interesting  findings, were
that about one-fourth of the freshmen
come   from   New   York   State,  about
one-sixth from Pennsylvania, and only
one-third   from   the   country   west  of
the Atlantic seaboard.    Eleven college
professors'  daughters are  included  in
the class, and the daughters of four-
teen alumnae.   More than half of them
are Episcopalians, their average age is,
as   usual,   eighteen   years   and   three
months, eighty-two per cent, of them
come  from  private  schools,  and  sev-
enty per cent, of them have fathers of
British stock, while ninety per cent, of
them   have   both  parents   and   grand-
parents native born.
The complete statistics are as fol-
lows:
Christiana Mutt Be Leaders.
About one-fourth of the freshman
class (thirty-three) come from New
York State, and of these all but four
come from New York City or the im-
mediate neighborhood. From up-
State New York only' four�Schenec-
tady, Fulton, Buffalo and. Niagara
Falls.
About one-sixth (twenty-one) of
them come from Pennsylvania, and of
these fourteen" come from Philadel-
phia and its neighborhood. Seven
come from other parts of Pennsyl-
vania� Sewickley, Reading, Harris-
burg, Lancaster and York.
Another sixth comes from Washing-
ton and Baltimore (together)�twelve
from , Washington, and seven from
Baltimore.
One-twelfth (eleven) come from
Massachusetts�seven from Boston, or
immediate neighborhood and the other
four from Wareham, Fall River, Fitch-
burg, and Springfield.
Home Towns.
Only a little less than one-third of
the class come from the rest of the
country: Six from New Jersey, but
three of these from Princeton; six
from Missouri, but of these five from
St. Louis; three from 'Illinois, all from
Chicago; three from.Connecticut, from
Ohio, Virgihia and West Virginia; one
or two from each of the following:
Kentucky, North Carolina, Oklahoma,
- Washington, Arizona, California,
China, Colorado, Indiana, Japan, Min-
nesota, Rhode Island, Texas, Utah and
Wisconsin.
Other  States.        >V
At the dinner which was given^o
Miss Thomas when she closed her*
long term at Bryn Mawr, one of the
outstandingly noticeable facts was the
number of college presidents who had
sent their daughters to Bryn Mawr�
Presidents   of   Princeton,   Yale,   Wil-
Senior Class Honors S. Walker,
V. Hill and M. Cruickshank
SYLVIA WALKER
OVER $2,000,000
GIVEN BRYN MAWR
Average     Actual    Gift     Per
Alumna Equals About
$407.00.
$273,115  MEMORY FUND
Over two million dollars in actual gift
to the college�this is the stupendous
record of the alumnae and former stu-
dents of Bryn Mawr, according to a
statement by the Director of Publications.
Since the alumnae only number about
5000, the average gift per alumna is about
$407, a record unequalled by the larger
colleges.
Besides this, gifts made by parents and
friends in honor or in memory of alumnae
and   former students total $273,115.
The contributions were distributed as
follows:
The Senior class held a meeting on
Thursday, October 7, in Deqbigh to
elect the class officers. Sylvia Walker
was re-elected Class President, Valinda
Hill succeeds Dorothy Meeker as Vice-
President, and Mary Cruikshank was
re-elected Secretary.
Miss Walker was one or the class
chairmen her Freshman year and a
member of the Casting and Costume
Committee for the Big May Day. She
was Hockey Captain during her Fresh-
man and Sophomore years and stiTt
retains that office. In her Junior year,
she was Vicc-President of the Athletic
Association, and, during her Junior
and Senior years, President of the
class.
Miss Hill was a member of the Busi-
ness Committee for Big May Day in
1923-24. During her Sophomore year
she was Secretary for the Self-Gov-
ernment Association, and in her Junior
year head of the Cut Committee. She
was President of the ^ass her Sopho-
more year.
Miss Cruikshank was Manager of
Gym her Sophomore and Junior years
and still retains that office. She was
a member of the Business Board of the
College News from the end of her
Freshman year to the end of Junior
year when she resigned. During her
Junior year she was prompter for Glee
Club and also Hall President of Pem-
broke West. During her Junior and
Senior years she was and still is a
member of the Rejigious Committee
of C. A. For two years she has been
class Secretary, Junior and Senior
years.
ONLY 150 SEAT8
Cornelia Otis Skinner will give
her original monologues in
Wyndhatn, on Thursday, Oc-
tober 1�, for the benefit of the
Alumnae Regional Scholarship
Fund. The evening performance
will be given for the college and
since only one hundred and fifty
seats are available, students are
to reserve them early. TicEets
may be bought at the office of
the Director of Publications in
Taylor.
SELF-EDUCATION
BASIS OF SCHOOL
Undergraduates    Give    Their
Views of Summer
Methods.
PRICE,   10 CENTS
RELIGION'S VALUE
SEEN AS A TASK
Radiance Not Lost  if Man
Realizes Interest in
Struggle    "
IS  SUBJECT  IN CHAPEL
PHILOSOPHICAL CONGRESS
For books for the Library, $15,940.40,
including $3000 for the valuable mathe-
matical library of Professor Charlotte
Angus Scott.
For buildings, $83,361.27, including
$25,000 from the Class of 1905 for an
Infirmary.
For scholarships, $41,713.85, including
subscriptions for regional scholarships, of
which there were 23 holders in college in
1925-26.
For endowment, $454,540 to the Fund
of $2,000,000 raised in 1920 and devoted
to the increase of salaries of the Faculty.
For auditorium, Students' Building,
and Department of Music endowment,
$200,000 of $500,000 raised in 1925.
SOCIAL SERVICE USEFUL
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SESQUI   THANK8   "NEWS"
A certificate received by The College
News  from the Sesquicentennial Expo-
sition reads as follows:
'�This is to certify that The College
News Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, has
rendered conspicuous service in assist-
ing the directors*of the Sesquicentennial
International Exposition to bring th�
message of the Exposition before the
public and has devoted time and effort
toward making it a success. This certifi-
cate is presented as an expression of ap-
preciation and commendation for assist-
ance in the celebration of 150 years of
American independence."
Sijmed by
W.    FREELAND    KENDRICK,
Mayor of  Philadelphia  and president
of the Exhibition Association.
E. J. CAFFERBY,
Chairman of the Executive Committee.
ASHER A. BAKER,
Director in Chief.
ODEIX HAUSER,
Director   Dept   Publicity.
Dr.   Klngsbury   Outlines   History   of
Community Centre.
The Social Service tea held in Den-
bigh on Monday, October 4, was the
first of a series of activities.-that the
committee has planned. Dr. Susan
Kingsbury spoke to a gratifyingly
large audience, telling them how social
service *ork might be made valuable
to all concerned. She gave a resume of
the opportunities offered, and told
briefly the history of the Bryn Mawr
Community Center.
"Social service work done here at
college is useful to three kinds of peo-
ple." First to those who intend to go
into that field when they leave, be-
cause they get practical experience,
and have a chance to learn by the
"laboratory method." It will also be
useful to those who plan to take part
in the civic life of their communities.
Someone has made the very flattering
statement that "Bryn Mawr alumnae
are milestones across the continent for
civic betterment."
Thirdly, the work is useful to the
vast majority who are not interested
in either phase, but \yho like to study
people and theltjlfc'e.s; bc�Ca*ier :* "*""
unequalled opportunity for personal
contacts. The community we live in
is our responsibility, and we must do
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Or.   G.   De   Laguna   Says   in   Chapel
That World  la Turning to
Philosophy.
Dr. Grace De Laguna spoke in
chapel on Friday morning, October 8,
about the Congress of Philosophy
which she attended this summer. She
pointed out its importance and its por-
tent in the world of thought.
"Two important things took place
this summer, one was this Congress
and the other was the fact that a book
on Philosophy has for the first time
become a 'best selUr'." Both of these
demonstrate a new interest in things
of the mind. In science there has been
a popular recognition, but this is not
true of Art. America has been rather
a Philistine, a land of jazz and radio
and film. But lately this has been
changing, people at large are turning
to Art, and they are also taking an
interest in "that last flower of civilized
thought�philosophy."
Over six hundred members attended
the conference, many of them young
students, a promising group. There
were sixteen foreign countries repre-
sented, and a special effort was made
to make it possible for them to attend.
Although there was much that was
confusing at the conference, there
were signs that something important
was going on. Science has for so^
time been going on its own way, but
now it has reached the point where
it has to take stock of its fundamental
aspects. When the scientist begins to
transform his way of looking at
nature, he becomes to some extent a
philosopher. Also in Philosophy the
old barriers of thought are down;
philosophy is turning its face to
science.
At all great periods of history, the
greatest men have been both phil-
osophers and scientists, not merely one
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NEW RULES" ANNUALLY
(Specially   contributed   by   M.  Jones,
'27, and JV. Bowman, '27.)
Do you remember "Eng. Comp. II,"
for which we read, among other things
Cardinal Newman's/'Idea of a Uni-
versity?" We were supposed fo' de-
velop theories of our own about
education while pondering over Car-
dinal Newman's. His main point
seemed to be that "self-education"
was the best method. Bring a group
of young people together, leave them
alone, and they will educate each other.
"That youthful community will fur-
nish principles of thought and action;
it wfll give birth to a living teaching
which in course of time will take the
shape of a self-perpetuating tradition
which haunts the home where it has
been born, and imbues and forms,
more or less, and one by one, every in-
dividual who is successively brought
under its shadow."
Cardinal Newman, I am sure, would
have thoroughly approved of the Bryn
Mawr   Summer    School.     Here   the
principle of "self-education" was in full
swing.    Groups  with  totally  different
experiences would come together and
learn to understand and generally tol-
erate one another's point of view.   We
of    the    "winter    school"    experience
something of this too, but after all our
backgrounds    are    very   much   alike,
while   those   of   the   Summer   School
group    were    entirely   different.     Of
many  nationalities, of  many different
trades, some of which were highly or-
ganized and some not organized at all,
and from every corner of the country,
they began pouring in on one hot June
day and immediately began the process
of gettftg acquainted  with the  place
and with each other,   ft seemed amaz-
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MAIDS' CLUB MEETS    '
"NEWS?'   TRYOUT8.
Tryouts for the editorial board
of the College News will be
held next week for 1927, 1928,
and 1929. See K. Simonds, Pem-
broke East 42, on Wednesday,
October 20, at 6.00.
Speakers   Explain   Work   to   Be   Of
fered�No Classes, But Individual
Tutors.
The first meeting of the Maids* Club
was held in the Maids' Clubroom in
the basement of Taylor Hall on Tues-
day evening, the fifth of October. The
purpose of this meeting was to ex-
plain to the maids what classes they
can take, and, in general, how the com-
mittee works. The first speaker was
Miss Faulkner, who told them what
she hoped they would get from the
classes, stressing particularly the Eng-
lish, and the Sewing Classes.
M. Coss, '28, spoke next, inviting
the maids to come to the Sunday
school which meets every Sunday
afternoon. The gym classes were ex-
plained by J. Stetson, '28, who is to
have charge of them this year. Be-
sides the regular gym there will be
folk dancing and games.
"When we see religion as a task for
our strength it becomes interesting,"
said Dr. Crosby Bell speaking in
Chapel on October the tenth. He
stressed the fact that religion is an
adventure, and a dangerous one, rather
than a "refuge." If it has lost ifc
radiance it is because it has been
preached wrongly, or listened to
wrongly, not through any fault of the
church itself.
"The most fundamental question
about religion is: What is Christianity
all about anyhow? Why did Jesus
come into the world?" The answer in
Jesus' own words is "I am'come that
they may have life, and have it abun-
dantly." Jesus is a "life-giver;" He
came to arouse intellectual life, so
that men would feel afresh the prob-
lems of the world; He came to stimu-
late the will, making men live "harder]"
He came to quicken moral life, turn-
ing men into "moral explorers." He
wanted to "pour in the fiery liquid of
His own ideals."
At bottom we all want to live as
deeply, as richly, and as interestingly
as possible. We admire men who
seem alive, while we" have a proper
contempt for anyone considered "a
dead one." The true Disciples of
Christ are the men who have come
alive. This is completely the reverse
of the idea often in the minds of peo-
ple that religion is a sort of "soothing
syrup," something to turn to when you
are tired, or old.
A story appeared recently about a
young minister who found religion so
dull that he gave up and went in for
wholesale debauchery; this was in-
tended as a criticism of a religion
which "drives its own ministers to
drink." The same author has pub-
lished a book entitled The Lost Radi-
ance of Religion. Laying the blame on
the church has long been a favorite
indoor sport, because it harts nobody's
feelings. The truth is that religion has
not lost its radiance, but that people
have lost their eyes for this radiance;
you cannot see a sunset if your eyes
are on the ground.
Faulty Presentation.
The cause for this may also be found
in the way in which religion is pre-
sented by ministers. It is so often
presented as a shelter from the battle-
field of life, an ark. But religion has
a message for the man who is healthy
as well as for the man who has been
hurt. "It is not the ambulance corps
trailing behind, but the army itself."
All through history religion has
been one of the great stimuli of life,
enlarging men's vision, making them
think cosmically. It has turned men
from "spiritual stay-at-homes" to trav-
elers. The religious man has always
known himself as a seeker after some
Holy Grail, whose path ends only at
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The last to speak was E. Stewart
'28, the chairman of the committee
She explained in detail the work in
the classes. This year the committee
hopes to be able to supply a tutor fot
each maid, as this is .more* satisfactory
than having large classes' wf\H>omV
one teacher. But, of course, this is
only possible if the college is willing
to co-operate.
ATHLETIC A88OCIATION MEET8
The Athletic Association held a
meeting last Wednesday evening in
Taylor for the purpose of familiariz-
ing new members with the athletic
regulations and incidentally reminding
old members.
Regulation gym clothes must be
worn for all sports. Tunics may be
worn only with shirtwaists. "Zippicks"
(tights) may be worn with class coior
sweater and shirtwaist or middy.
The question of points for blazers
was also discussed.
Attention was called to the rule'that
everyone must sign her own periods.
So often people have given the excuse
that they told someone else to sigh and
that the someone else forgot. In the
future mm v~v�,*. will not be an alibi
for avoiding fines.
After the constitution was read by
the Secretary, the meeting ended.